Summer Institute
Featured Activities and Reports
  • Participant map
  • Summer Institute teams have come from institutions coast to coast: from Florida to Alaska, from Hawaii to New England. See a new participant map to learn which institutions have sent teams to the Summer Institute.
  • New website
  • The Summer Institute is pleased to unveil its new website. All of the previous information is still here, but hopefully easier to find. Please contact us with any feedback or questions.
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Articles about the Summer Institute

Harvey Black. (2003). "Needs improvement." The Scientist, August 19.

Terry Devitt. (2003). "Educators ponder teaching biology as a scientific enterprise." Wisconsin Week, November 5.

Bruce Alberts. (2003). "'Science Education' Needs to be Redefined at All Levels, and the Effort Will Depend on College Science Faculty." The National Academies In Focus 3(3, Fall), 3.

Vanee Vines. (2003). "Head of the Class: New Project Schools University Faculty in Effective Teaching." The National Academies In Focus 3(3, Fall), 4-5.

Jay B. Labov. (2003). "From the National Academies." Cell Biology Education 2(4, Winter), 202-204.

William Wood and James Gentile. (2003). "Meeting Report: The First National Academies Summer Institute for Undergraduate Education in Biology." Cell Biology Education 2(4, Winter), 207-209.

Harvey Black. (2003). "Homegrown scientists." The Scientist, November 25.

William B. Wood and James M. Gentile. (2003). "Teaching in a Research Context." Science 302(5650, 28 November), 1510.

ASM News. (2004). "ASM Members Participate in 1st National Academies Summer Institute of Undergraduate Education in Biology." ASM News 70(1, January), 34-35.

Jo Handelsman, Diane Ebert-May, Robert Beichner, Peter Bruns, Amy Chang, Robert DeHaan, Jim Gentile, Sarah Lauffer, James Stewart, Shirley M. Tilghman, and William B. Wood. (2004). "Scientific Teaching." Science 304(5670, 23 April), 521-522.

AIBS News. (2004). "AIBS Members and Staff Recognized as National Academies Education Fellows and Mentors in the Life Sciences." BioScience 54(12, December).

William B. Wood and Jo Handelsman. (2004). "Meeting Report: The 2004 National Academies Summer Institute on Undergraduate Education in Biology." Cell Biology Education 3(4, Winter), 215-217.

Scott Jaschik. (2005). "A Scientific (Teaching) Revolution." Inside Higher Ed, March 23.

Susan Musante. (2005). "Eye on Education: Creating a Community of Educators to Improve Undergraduate Biology Student Learning." BioScience 55(4, April).

Jennifer Boeth Donovan. (2005). "Peaceful Revolution." HHMI Bulletin (Winter), 6-7.




Articles related to Bio2010

Bruce Alberts. (2002). "From the National Academies." Cell Biology Education 1(4, Winter), 109-111.

Kerry Brenner. (2002). "Fueling Educational Reform: Bio2010--Biology for the Future." Cell Biology Education 2(2, Summer), 85-86.

Joan A. Steitz. (2002). "Commentary: Bio2010--New Challenges for Biology Educators." Cell Biology Education 2(2, Summer), 87-91.

Douglas Fambrough. (2002). "Bio2010: Read It!" Cell Biology Education 2(2, Summer), 92-93.

David Brakke. (2002). "Changes in Undergraduate Education Required to Support the Field of Biology: Recommendations of the National Research Council." AWIS Magazine 31(4, Autumn), 26-28.

Eric Stokstad. (2002). "Biology Departments Urged to Bone Up." Science 297(5588, 13 September), 1789.

Madeleine Jacobs. (2002). "Educating Biologists." Chemical & Engineering News 80(39, September 30), 36.

John J. Hopfield. (2002). "Form Follows Function." Physics Today 55(11, November), 10.

John D. Thompson. (2002). "Is Biology Education Locked in the Past?" ASBMB Today 1(8, November), 16-19.

John W. Moore. (2002). "The Chemistry-Biology Connection." Journal of Chemical Education 79(11, November), 1287.

Amy Chang. (2002). "Renewed Call, New Incentives for Changing Undergraduate Biology." ASM News 69(12, December), 593.

M. Patricia Morse. (2003). "Preparing Biologists for the 21st Century." BioScience 53(1, January), 9.

Lou Gross and John Jungck. (2003). "Undergraduate Education for Future Research Biologists -- the Quantitative Component." Mathematical Biology Newsletter 16(1, January).

Donald Kennedy and James Gentile. (2003). "Points of View: Is Bio2010 the Right Blueprint for the Biology of the Future?" Cell Biology Education 2(4, Winter), 224-227.

Bruce Alberts. (2003). "Bio2010 Misinterpreted?" Science 302(5650, 28 November), 1504.

Louis J. Gross. (2004). "Interdisciplinarity and the Undergraduate Biology Curriculum: Finding a Balance." Cell Biology Education 3(2, Summer), 85-87.


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